FEIVESON, ALAN
>
> After following this thread, I'm beginning to think Stata
> Corp. ought to
> offer a new "flavor" of Stata, say Stata NG (nongraphical),
> which has all
> the new commands, etc of Stata 8, yet retains the simpler
> (but still very
> serviceable) graphing characteristics of Stata 7. On the
> other hand, if the
> major differnence betwen Stat 7 and 8 is the graphics, I'm
> not sure I really
> want to upgrade.
>
This should be the least of your worries.
Under version control, all the old stuff is there.
You can (e.g.) just say -graph7- wherever you
said -graph-.
Stata Corp is not in the business of breaking all
the .do files and .ado files based on previous
graphics, as virtually all users would be hopping
mad at that, me among them.
Nick
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